For another moment, Fernando hears static breaking the silence with a hint  of a female voice garbled in the static on the Yeasu Radio. There is no other option to consider other than it is Jeanette trying to reach him but is still out of range. He figures if she is driving, she should be in range in about 1/2 an hour. He waits.

Fernando hears the Yeasu come to life with Jeanette's voice. He raises the volume, on the radio a bit before answering.
 
"This is Fernando. I'm at Dr. Brown's place. You on the road?" He says and a asks.

Fernando, in thinking, thinks that she did not hear his first transmission after dealing with the biker gang and that they would keep things clear for them.
 
"If you are on the roadway, it is clear of unwanted attention, if you understand what unwanted attention could be. As for the road itself, it should be clearing up to smooth asphalt when you reach 10 miles from the village." He keys up on the radio.

(It is the 10 miles that are properly maintained by the villages that are smooth and clean. Anything after that depends on how well the road is travelled, who maintains it and if biker gangs patrol/guard/toll it.
 
At about this point, Jeanette should be approaching the area where Fernando helped the biker gang members from an accident that killed a few of their kind and the farmer/trader they were protecting because of a tire blow out. Though the road will be rough with pot holes, it should be drivable, not that the VW Bus is the best thing to hit a pot hole with at speed. The question is, did the biker gang removed the wreckage and cleaned up the road as they said they would? In the least Jeanette should be holding onto that steering wheel tightly with both hands and slowing down her speed to get past the pot holes.)

"Pull up to the front and turn into the sunny side of the building. I'm letting the solar cells charge up the battery."